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White Queen's Rook
White Queen's Rook
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Challenge: Imagination (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS
Location: Tabley Mere
Date: May 24, 2012
Aperture: 9.0
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1055
Galleries: Architecture, Infrared
Date Uploaded: May 24, 2012

17 minute exposure in broad daylight, infrared filter. Hours of cloning to deal with the hot pixels.

Postprocessing involved adjusting the white balance, using channel mixer to tweak the individual channels in something a bit more sophisticated than the usual red/blue swap to get the whites the right icy shade of white, then spending ages adjusting contrast curves. De-noise on the sky, cloned out a small distracting branch at the left of the image, cloned out a lot of hot pixels and dark pixels, resized, sharpened.

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Statistics
Place: 39 out of 76
Avg (all users): 5.4954
Avg (commenters): 0.0000
Avg (participants): 5.1333
Avg (non-participants): 5.6329
Views since voting: 651
Views during voting: 221
Votes: 109
Comments: 1
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06/07/2012 10:10:49 PM
Greetings from the Critique Club!

You certainly put a lot of work into this image! Love the solidity of the tower and the softness of the willows around it. The long exposure is something else, it certainly seems to have given the water an unusual sheen, almost metallic to my eye. Nice comp and good lighting, I might have tried to isolate the tower a bit more by cloning out some of the trees behind it to the left, to accentuate the 'rook' look.

This site can be funny when it comes to shots like this. Too much pp can turn voters off, yet it works very well for this instance. Just wondering if a simple Inversion would have helped at all, maybe cut down a little on the adjustments of contrast curves?

Overall nice work, I look forward to seeing more from you.

Feel free to PM me,

Susan
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